Reference:
Review Excerpts 'Owing to the fact that words can resemble one another tonally even
when their literal meanings may be miles apart, various kinds of trick
affinities can develop between them. Though I affirm absolutely that
anyone who doesn't agree with this proposition lacks a feel for the
sound of words, there is still plenty of room for disagreement as to
its application in particular cases. The issue becomes especially risky
when (thinking along psychoanalytic lines) one tinkers with the possibility
that a term on its face sublime may secretly resonate with a term quite
ridiculous; and thereby the kinds of "body-thinking" explicitly manifest in,
say, writers like Aristophanes or Swift can figure implicitly in solemn
works (particularly when one is dealing with such images as a funeral
urn' (129).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | face | figure |
literal |
proposition |
term |
thinking |
'It's the places where Booth forgives me that make me
uncomfortable. At those times Booth makes me scare myself'
(137).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | Last Modified:
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